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Neighborhood reeling after Sunday night slaying

Police searching for shooter

The search is on to find the person who shot a Louisville man outside his apartment then took off running.

Neighborhood reeling after Sunday night slaying

Police searching for shooter

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Updated: 5:52 PM EST Nov 12, 2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

The search is on to find the person who shot a Louisville man outside his apartment then took off running.

Police said a man was shot near the intersection of 16th Street and Plymouth Court in Louisville’s Russell neighborhood.

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The coroner identified the victim as 29-year-old Joseph Cothron.

“I was actually in my kitchen cooking. We was all in there talking and cooking and doing family stuff and we just heard the gunshots,” said neighbor Taewanna Miles.

“I said, ‘Where my kids at? Where my kids at.’ And I'm worried, so I checked my kids all over. Make sure, check their bodies, make sure they weren't hit or nothing like that,” said neighbor Shatara.

Miles' 13-year-old son saw it happen from across the street.

“He was in the window, so when he heard the shots he was in the window. He saw them run that way,” said neighbor Luther Ward. “He had like a red jacket on. Well, like a black jacket with red on the inside. And he was running and it was swinging.”

“The kids was all nervous because nothing like that happens in this neighborhood,” Miles said.

Cothron was rushed to University Hospital, where he died shortly after the shooting.

Late Sunday into Monday, detectives gathered evidence and went door to door hoping something would point to the killer.

“It's senseless violence for no reason. We're killing our own for no reason. Our kids are watching this violence go on and they're thinking it's OK to keep killing each other and it's not OK. It's not OK to take somebody's life,” Miles said.

Neighbors said they'd seen Cothron in the area but didn't know him well.

As detectives work his case, people living in the area hope it's the last time their neighborhood is turned into a crime scene.

“I send my blessings and my prayers out to his family because, as a mother, I can only imagine what she's going through,” Miles said.

Police said any information, no matter how small, could be the missing piece they need.